Indians among world’s laziest, take just 4,297 steps a day: Stanford study

The study, which compared walking patterns of people from 46 countries, placed India at a low 39, with people averaging only 4,297 steps a day.

People in Hong Kong particularly are the most active, walking an average of 6,880 steps, followed by China at large (6,189), Ukraine (6,107), Japan (6,010) and Russia (5,969). Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia were ranked the lowest, with people walking less than 4,000 steps a day on an average.

The UK, Italy, Germany and France average between 5,000-5,500 steps a day, while the US, Australia, Canada and the UAE only manage between 4,500-4,900 steps a day.

An average person walks 4,961 steps per day over an average of 14 hours.

However, the data findings that Indian women walk even less than Indian men assumes even more alarming significance.

The study further showed that larger number of steps recorded are associated with lower obesity, however, for females, the prevalence of obesity increases more rapidly as step volume decreases.